"Nature Show Host": not David Attenborough, surprisingly
"Compelling Lady": nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday
"Upset Girl": this is more the voiceover that would be used on depressing animal charity adverts
"Magnetic Man": you can't fool me, that's an American
"Patient Man": patience gives you reverb. The word "British" is spoken with a very non-British accent.
Not to be all Henry Higgins, but these are all "placeless" accents and there are no regional accent options. I was looking forward to trying Computer Mancunian. But I can see why for marketing voiceover people want "global neutral British".
UX review: "failed to generate speech". Only the example phrases work.
This is true, but you could also say the same about the phrases "English accent" and "Scottish accent" -- a Scouse accent sounds nothing like RP, and a Highland lilt is very different from the accent in the Gorbals.
And the Appalachian accents of Justified sound very different to the Mid-Atlantic accent of Frasier Crane -- yet to me, as an outsider, there is still an indefinable "Americanness" common to them all.
There's plenty of difference within English accents as well. I'll generally classify any of them as English, I think.
That said, when I use the term British accent, I do usually mean English, I think. Sorry. Also sorry for all the times I used England when I meant UK, or UK when I meant Great Britain, or vice versa.
Lots of people sadly. This is what ignorance looks like. You see similar from North Americans referring to all Latin Americans as Mexicans or Europeans referring to all North Africans and Middle Eastern folks as Arabs or all black people as Africans.
The reality is that no accent (not even english ones) sound like each other technically. Consider a south east accent with a scouse accent, for example. Both English, both nothing like each other.
I believe the correct expression would be "British accents".
I did finally get it to generate something using the "Patient man" persona, and "Dos cerverzas por favor" does actually sound like a brit struggling with their Spanish pronunciation.
Man I'm so disappointed: I thought I'd be able to use this tool to learn different British accents but apparently the tool "British" is already an accent...
"British accents are known for their pronunciation patterns, intonation, and rhythm, which differ from American, Australian, or other English accents. A British accent generator focuses on these speech characteristics to create audio that sounds natural and familiar to UK listeners."
What kind of Slop is this? British accent is different from other English accents?
Are these for the purpose of selling to non-Brits right? "Being British is supposed to be classy and surely not associated with Trump as much as being an American"?
That might work, but not for selling to Brits because they expect some sort of a local accent. Universal/unlocalised voice does not sound natural or believable to them.
British accent review time!
"Nature Show Host": not David Attenborough, surprisingly
"Compelling Lady": nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday
"Upset Girl": this is more the voiceover that would be used on depressing animal charity adverts
"Magnetic Man": you can't fool me, that's an American
"Patient Man": patience gives you reverb. The word "British" is spoken with a very non-British accent.
Not to be all Henry Higgins, but these are all "placeless" accents and there are no regional accent options. I was looking forward to trying Computer Mancunian. But I can see why for marketing voiceover people want "global neutral British".
UX review: "failed to generate speech". Only the example phrases work.
I tried to get it to generate a hearty "Fit like min?" - no luck.
Patient man, sounds a little Welsh, maybe some Indian twangs in there too?
I tried Irvine Welsh so perhaps the wrong kind of Welsh, but I got a generator error while trying to ask for Mark Hunt having a pint.
"British accent"
Who uses this term? English, Welsh and Scottish accents sound nothing like each other!
This is true, but you could also say the same about the phrases "English accent" and "Scottish accent" -- a Scouse accent sounds nothing like RP, and a Highland lilt is very different from the accent in the Gorbals.
And the Appalachian accents of Justified sound very different to the Mid-Atlantic accent of Frasier Crane -- yet to me, as an outsider, there is still an indefinable "Americanness" common to them all.
There's plenty of difference within English accents as well. I'll generally classify any of them as English, I think.
That said, when I use the term British accent, I do usually mean English, I think. Sorry. Also sorry for all the times I used England when I meant UK, or UK when I meant Great Britain, or vice versa.
Lots of people sadly. This is what ignorance looks like. You see similar from North Americans referring to all Latin Americans as Mexicans or Europeans referring to all North Africans and Middle Eastern folks as Arabs or all black people as Africans.
The reality is that no accent (not even english ones) sound like each other technically. Consider a south east accent with a scouse accent, for example. Both English, both nothing like each other.
I believe the correct expression would be "British accents".
Magnetic Man is unmistakably American, and annoying with it.
Keep getting "Failed to generate speech. Please try again." on Brave + Chrome.
HTZc3SNl.js:1 Failed to generate speech: Error: Invalid API response format at Z (HTZc3SNl.js:1:29240)
the nature presenter is broken but the others work
Same here. I was hoping to type in "Dos cerverzas por favor" and hear it shout "TWO BEEROS HERE PEDRO".
I did finally get it to generate something using the "Patient man" persona, and "Dos cerverzas por favor" does actually sound like a brit struggling with their Spanish pronunciation.
Initial feedback: they're all too slow after the initial 'welcome...generator' sentence, doesn't sound natural.
(Also struggled getting it working at all as others already noted.)
This needs a Roadman accent. Plz.
Awesome stuff.
Americans always think a British accent is exactly one accent.
I live in London part of the year.
Americans think a British accent is either "posh snob" or "chimney sweep."
Meanwhile the rest of the world thinks an American accent is either "Travis Bickle" or "Yosemite Sam."
Man I'm so disappointed: I thought I'd be able to use this tool to learn different British accents but apparently the tool "British" is already an accent...
"British accents are known for their pronunciation patterns, intonation, and rhythm, which differ from American, Australian, or other English accents. A British accent generator focuses on these speech characteristics to create audio that sounds natural and familiar to UK listeners." What kind of Slop is this? British accent is different from other English accents?
I think the phrase that's missing is "British Recieved Pronunciation"
That "RP" really gets my goat, received from whom? Some snot-nosed southern twat it would seem.
Are these for the purpose of selling to non-Brits right? "Being British is supposed to be classy and surely not associated with Trump as much as being an American"?
That might work, but not for selling to Brits because they expect some sort of a local accent. Universal/unlocalised voice does not sound natural or believable to them.
In movies, English accents, are usually villains...